How to find more cmdlets

Cmdlets are usually bundled together into packages called modules. We’ll cover module structure in detail in Chapter 11, Creating Our First Module, but for now, it is enough to know that a module is a collection of cmdlets with a common theme, such as interacting with a particular application or performing a set of similar functions. Once a module is installed and imported, the cmdlets become available in the shell or to a script.

Finding modules and cmdlets on your machine

We already have a number of modules available to us. Try this; type Get-Module into your shell. Depending on how long PowerShell has been installed, how long the session has been open, and the platform we are working on, we should see a relatively short list—something like this:

Figure 2.6 – List of imported modules

That’s a list of modules that have been imported into the current session. But that’s not all the modules...